Word: bumptiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably Sturges's outstanding accomplishment in the picture is his work with Betty Hutton, so successful that the brash, bumptious bouncer becomes a light and joyous comedienne. Eddy Bracken is cut out for his role, and the two of them carry the picture, although Sturges has not neglected the minor roles...
Australia Is Big. Bumptious suspicion of life in the Great World is not merely an aspect of the "immaturity" of a colonial people. There is another side to it: Australians, like Americans before them, have felt no need of any pattern larger than their...
Last week Grace Moore summed up her three-ring career as diva, musical comedy star and cinemactress in an engagingly frank, somewhat bumptious autobiography (You're Only Human Once; Doubleday, Doran...
...Mexicans" signs can be found in other border states. But big, bumptious Texas is the most assertive in maintaining the doctrine that anyone with a dark skin, however cultivated, industrious and well-behaved, is forever inferior to any light-skinned person. (Mexicans have practically no Negro blood; most of them are part or full-blooded Indians.) There are about a million people of Mexican extraction in Texas. In much of the State they are forced to ride in Jim Crow cars, use Jim Crow toilets, go to separate "Spik" schools and restaurants. Even Mexican consuls have been treated...
Announced the Nazis' Brussels radio: "The Strength Through Joy movement will celebrate its tenth anniversary today with a dancing festival in Berlin." Unhappily for bumptious, bottle-worn Robert Ley, the tenth anniversary of his beloved movement coincided with Berlin's blitz (see p. 30). Undaunted, the Labor Front leader took to the radio. Said he: "There is one particular thought that could drive me crazy-the thought that these war criminals of London, Washington and Moscow hinder...